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This category contains articles about photographers associated with the U.S. state of Illinois. Subcategories. ... Pages in category "Photographers from Illinois"
Takuma Kajiwara (seated) and Frederick Oakes Sylvester in Elsah, Illinois. Takuma Kajiwara (梶原 琢磨, Kajiwara Takuma, November 15, 1876 – March 11, 1960) was a Japanese-born [1] American artist who was called "one of the seven greatest photographers in the United States".
Julius Caesar Strauss (July 1857 - 1924), known professionally as J. C. Strauss, [1] was an American photographer who was active in St. Louis, Missouri, at the turn of the 20th century. Born in Cleveland, Ohio , the son of a poor Bavarian -born tailor, he left home and sneaked into St. Louis in 1876 and opened a photography studio in 1879. [ 2 ]
Five years of renovations in the city between 1899 and the World's Fair in 1904 put the Gerhard Sisters in the heart of a new St. Louis at the height of the Progressive political era. [1] They developed new and original ideas and methods which, as they have applied to portrait photography, gave a value and beauty of execution equal to painted ...
Jessie Tarbox Beals (December 23, 1870 – May 30, 1942) was an American photographer, the first published female photojournalist in the United States and the first female night photographer. She is best known for her freelance news photographs, particularly of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, and portraits of places such as Bohemian Greenwich ...
Photographer Location Notes Cited survey(s) View from the Window at Le Gras (French: Point de vue du Gras) 1826 Nicéphore Niépce: Saint-Loup-de-Varennes, France Considered the oldest surviving camera photograph. [1] [s 1] [s 2] [s 3] Windows From Inside South Gallery [a] August 1835 William Henry Fox Talbot: Lacock, England, United Kingdom
Evans' 1936 photo of then-27-year-old Allie Mae Burroughs, a symbol of the Great Depression Roadside stand near Birmingham, Alabama, photographed by Evans Evans' March 1936 photo, Frame house. Charleston, South Carolina. Walker Evans was born in St. Louis, Missouri to Jessie (née Crane) and Walker Evans. [3] His father was an advertising director.
After the War, Berg worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch New York bureau from 1952-1972, when the newspaper closed the office and recalled him to St. Louis. [7] Commentary on his newspaper work appeared frequently in Popular Photography magazine, used as an example of a creative approach to reportage and documentary work.